Details

Last Funding Type

Series Unknown

Last Funding Money Raised

$8.30M

Industries

Biopharma,Biotechnology,Health Care,Therapeutics

Founded date

Jan 1, 1983

Number Of Employee

51 - 100

Operating Status

Active

As of January 6, 2009, Genelabs Technologies Inc. was acquired by SmithKline Beecham Corporation. Genelabs Technologies, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company, engages in the discovery and development of infectious disease therapies to improve human health. The company's product pipeline consists of infectious disease projects focusing on Hepatitis C virus infection; and late-stage clinical assets, including an investigational vaccine for hepatitis E virus that is being developed by GlaxoSmithKline; and Prestara, an investigational drug for systemic lupus erythematosus. It has license and collaboration agreement with the Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research for HCV polymerase non-nucleoside discovery research. Genelabs Technologies also has a collaborative research agreement with the National Health Research Institutes and Genovate Biotechnology Co., Ltd. to discover and develop compounds that target the hepatitis C virus. The company was founded in 1983 and is headquartered in Redwood City, California.